The joyful line from the 1993 bobsled movie “Cool Runnings” goes like this: “Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it’s bobsled time.

For 16-year-old Sam Beach of Alton, New York, bobsled time is now. On Feb. 8, the undersized phenom will hop a plane to Norway to join the rest of the United States’ Youth Olympic Team as a bobsled driver. His coach, Don Haas, is sold on the young speedster’s intangibles.

“He’s a very good driver,” Haas said as the snow fell at Mount Van Hoevenberg on a recent afternoon. “He’s fairly quick. He trained hard this summer and things just came together for him.”

Still, Sam may be an unlikely Olympian. Standing 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing just 145 pounds, he is light. But he attacks the track with unbridled enthusiasm and he loves speed.

“No matter how many times I go down in the bobsled, I get a rush every time,” the thoughtful daredevil said as he sat, surrounded by bobsled relics in the Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled storage hangar. “I never get bored with it.”

That enthusiasm set him apart from his competitors when qualifying for Team USA. He trained in Lake Placid and stood out in competition in both Canada and Austria. His coach believes it is in the realm of possibility for the youth Olympian to one day compete at the Olympic level.

“He’s going to have to get into a heavy duty weight lifting program,” Haas said. “A bobsled driver today needs to be 195 to 220 pounds and extremely strong, extremely fast.